Last year at this time, I had completed six states. This year, I have completed one more state and added two more to my running tally, for a total of twenty-three states visited, of which seven are completed. A couple of days ago was my fifth geoversary. It doesn't feel like five years, and yet … Continue reading There’s No Narrative To Interrupt This Time… →

As I walked up the park path, I thought a lot about Austin's history, specifically the Cedar Choppers who once roamed the outskirts of the city. Of course, in this day and age, the places they roamed are well within the city limits, and I knew that the trees I walked by were once part … Continue reading All Wet →

The Scorpion Expeditionary Force (SEF) and I had long been preparing for this past weekend. Its de facto leader had long ago told us that he, his wife, and another cacher had been working on a giant duck-themed Geoart to replace the many different and recently archived ones spread out over Williamson and Milam Counties. … Continue reading More Than I Expected →

Nostalgia pulls at me. Yesterday, I claimed my daily cache at the foot of a mural. In this case, the mural was both familiar and unfamiliar in equal measure. The mural lives on a wall of a library I have visited since my childhood. I still remember when it was bare and clean, only bearing … Continue reading They All Pull At Me →

I didn't expect my cache yesterday to be emotionally fulfilling, but fulfilling it was. When I pulled up my map, I saw a lot of Unknown caches looking back at me, since I had already grabbed most of the Traditionals in the area. My eye was immediately drawn to the little frown on my screen. … Continue reading Vindicating Myself →

I'm sure by this point, most of you have picked up on the fact that caching is a major preoccupation of my existence. I can seriously say that there are only a handful of things in my life more important to me than caching (my daughters, of course, being chief among them). And by a … Continue reading Social Life? →

Yeah, I got a cache, as I am wont to do. Unfortunately, it's not the cache I went to the area to get. An FTF dropped nearby a few hours before, so I rushed out for it as soon as I got out of work. When I got near ground zero, I noticed it had … Continue reading Consolation Prize →

Does one ever truly leave Waco? In other than the literal sense, I mean? I’m not sure because I don’t seem to have gotten out of its orbit. Several days ago, I decided that, since I was in Waco again, I might as well find a cache up there. I pulled up the map, chose … Continue reading Styles →

With their last week of school completed and a long weekend ahead, my daughters came down to Austin to hang out and do non-Longview things! Thanks to a last-minute itinerary change, I had to pick them up in Waco. But when life gives you lemons, make lemonade!* That just meant getting out of my normal … Continue reading Tot(t)s In The Field →

Yesterday, the night cache I placed over the weekend in Lampasas finally published. This normally wouldn't be worthy of note to all of you hundreds or thousands of miles from GZ, but it has been almost a week since it was submitted. Since when does it usually take a week for a cache to publish? … Continue reading I’m So Sorry →